If you would be so kind to vote for the final round, I'd be immensely pleased. So far, I've only received three votes, including my own, so I'm hoping that we'll get at least seven more throughout the extension of 24 hours.

Welcome to the FINALE of the first round, aka, Challenge 1-11 voting round at ff7com_lims, featuring the personal challenges of everybody.

The basic rules and regulations of voting:

- Voting for Challenge 1-11 will end at around 10 PM GMT on Wednesday, Febuary 23, 2008.

- You are voting for your FAVORITE out of each batch. The one with the most faves overall wins the round and is called the Last Icon Maker Standing of Round one! As an example, this is how you should submit your voting for this round:

- Do NOT vote for your own icons (for either category) and don't feel obligated to not vote for your friends' icons, etc. Keep things as objective as possible!

- ANYONE CAN VOTE. You do not have to be a contestant or anything, so VOTE AWAY!

Please look carefully at each icon and the number it has. If you don't double-check, you might be voting off the icons you like instead, which is a bad thing. Again double-check your votes before posting them!

And here's the eleventh and final challenge! Congratulations to both powercorrupts and chibi_renton for making it into the finale!

The deadline for submissions is Friday, Febuary 22, 2008 at 12am GMT.

~ You have to be on the participant's list to enter.

~ You can only use the Compilation images given in the challenge. Feel free to use any stock pictures, brushes, textures or whatever you like. Just don't use any Compilation images other than the ones given.

~ All icons must be no larger than 40k or 100x100 in size.

~ Please refrain from promoting your icon elsewhere or putting it up until the voting is over. Doing so will get you disqualified, which is not very nice.

~ All icons are to be submitted through comments to this post. Please include both the url and the actual image. All comments will be screened.

~ Any questions or concerns you may have should be posted in a comment that doesn't contain an icon.

Challenge Eleven: FINALE

Considering this is the finale, it would be a cop out to make it easy, wouldn't it? :D Thus your requirement for this challenge is to make three icons, each with different instructions.

Welcome to the semi-finals of the first round, aka, Challenge 1-10 voting round at ff7com_lims, featuring the personal challenges of everybody.

The basic rules and regulations of voting:

- Voting for Challenge 1-10 will end at around 12 AM GMT on Sunday, Febuary 11, 2008.

- You are voting for 1 (one) icon of LESSER QUALITY to be eliminated, and 1 icon that is YOUR FAVORITE for People's Choice award. For the elimination icon, please judge based on overall technique and aesthetic quality, NOT personal preferences (such as character, favorite color, etc). We reserve the right to void any vote we feel is unfair or petty. You do not have to give a reason for your FAVORITE icon choices (though it is encouraged), but YOU MUST GIVE A REASON FOR YOUR ELIMINATIONS.

- Do NOT vote for your own icons (for either category) and don't feel obligated to not vote for your friends' icons, etc. Keep things as objective as possible!

- ANYONE CAN VOTE. You do not have to be a contestant or anything, so VOTE AWAY!

- Here is an example vote for you to follow (1 elimination, 1 favorites):#202 - I like the cropping, but the coloring seems kind of bland and the icon looks unfinished.

Favorite #201 - I love the cropping and the coloring! Excellently done!

Please look carefully at each icon and the number it has. If you don't double-check, you might be voting off the icons you like instead, which is a bad thing. Again double-check your votes before posting them!

~ You can only use the Compilation images given in the challenge. Feel free to use any stock pictures, brushes, textures or whatever you like. Just don't use any Compilation images other than the ones given.

~ All icons must be no larger than 40k or 100x100 in size.

~ Please refrain from promoting your icon elsewhere or putting it up until the voting is over. Doing so will get you disqualified, which is not very nice.

~ All icons are to be submitted through comments to this post. Please include both the url and the actual image. All comments will be screened.

~ Any questions or concerns you may have should be posted in a comment that doesn't contain an icon.

Challenge Ten: PERSONAL CHALLENGENow, the reason why I told you guys to list your five favorite characters is before you'll all be receiving a personal challenge from me, different from the others. The challenge will contain several instructions that you have to follow.